David Axelrod quote: "I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement."

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into...
DAVID AXELROD

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people ...
DAVID AXELROD

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose...
DAVID AXELROD

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-f...
DAVID AXELROD

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain's advice on vice presidential nominees.
DAVID AXELROD

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that...
DAVID AXELROD

My advice was to stay a million miles away from it.
DAVID AXELROD

Do we want a nominee who's propped up [by] the process, or a nominee who can beat George Bush? We re...
DAVID AXELROD

The goal here is to signify to people that they are getting real and reliable information. I think h...
DAVID AXELROD

Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, ... Here he had been gratuitously na...
DAVID AXELROD

This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a ...
DAVID AXELROD

Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him.
DAVID AXELROD

He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we ...
DAVID AXELROD

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fough...
DAVID AXELROD

I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's probably the only time I will ever play...
DAVID AXELROD

He's not exactly a guy who invites the limelight, and he's not a showboat. He's really rather shy.
DAVID AXELROD

I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election...
DAVID AXELROD

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration poli...
DAVID AXELROD

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened...
DAVID AXELROD

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, ste...
DAVID AXELROD

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be di...
DAVID AXELROD

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you...
DAVID AXELROD

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008...
DAVID AXELROD

I can only conclude the same geniuses who put the county budget together are now working as his camp...
DAVID AXELROD

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can sp...
DAVID AXELROD

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care tod...
DAVID AXELROD

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What's necessary is to stab...
DAVID AXELROD

Emotions always get cranked up after incidents of this type. It's good to step back and let common s...
DAVID AXELROD

At the end of the day I think people understand that relationships are difficult sometimes.
DAVID AXELROD

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle sa...
DAVID AXELROD

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing...
DAVID AXELROD

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was go...
DAVID AXELROD

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or an...
DAVID AXELROD

You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being...
DAVID AXELROD

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance compani...
DAVID AXELROD

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketpl...
DAVID AXELROD

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the Am...
DAVID AXELROD

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying l...
DAVID AXELROD

Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We do...
DAVID AXELROD

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice presi...
DAVID AXELROD

But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. Th...
DAVID AXELROD

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.
DAVID AXELROD

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactic...
DAVID AXELROD

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.
DAVID AXELROD

He believes he's going to be ready for the start of the season. That's what we're counting on.
BARRY AXELROD

Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can underst...
BARRY AXELROD

It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring T...
BARRY AXELROD

All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident tha...
BARRY AXELROD

I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have b...
BARRY AXELROD

It's a lie. When I go to games, I cheer as hard as I can for the Bulls, and I boo as hard as I can f...
MICHAEL AXELROD

I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else.
MICHAEL AXELROD

It's a little daunting, a little troublesome.
MICHAEL AXELROD

Once the ref blows his whistle, I yell out, 'That's a terrible call' and then I start booing with ev...
MICHAEL AXELROD

If you are sad, you crumple or you sit close. And if you are happy, you sit with your hands open. Bu...
AMIT AXELROD

That is how we came to the idea of the molecule.
AMIT AXELROD

We have too many feelings, and we have too many positions.
AMIT AXELROD

This isn't about money for Jeff. Jeff is guaranteed his full salary regardless of what happens ? if ...
BARRY AXELROD

That date has changed. The timeline moved up as to when the claim has to be made.
BARRY AXELROD

I think there's probably a real good chance something will happen there. He did well there last year...
BARRY AXELROD

It looks that way from the outside. I don't know how it looks from the inside. With people threateni...
BARRY AXELROD

If he's incapable of doing this, he's going to say so. He's said many times, he's not going to embar...
BARRY AXELROD

She wanted to surrender soon after the crime, but because she was pregnant, she was afraid she'd hav...
ROBERT AXELROD

She is a young, charming, personable soccer mom who has been carrying a secret for longer than she c...
ROBERT AXELROD

[Her lawyer, Robert Axelrod, said there was no doubt she committed the theft, but she claimed she wa...
ROBERT AXELROD

The evidence of the physical acts are quite overwhelming. But there are mitigating factors. He brain...
ROBERT AXELROD

We're not going to appeal. She was willing to accept the sentence the judge handed down. This was th...
ROBERT AXELROD

The best result would be that she would be forgiven for what she did.
ROBERT AXELROD

They have not done that. Have they hinted at it? Are we well aware they may want that to happen? Yes...
BARRY AXELROD

What accounts for TIT fo TAT's roobust success is it's combination of being nice, retaliatory, forgi...
ROBERT AXELROD

The language in it is really unclear and hazy on a lot of things. You would think that's something t...
JARED AXELROD

You would think that's something that would be the most specific - where exactly campus begins, wher...
JARED AXELROD

There is lots of healthy conflict. Organizations that have sustained success have dealt with conflic...
LARRY AXELROD

We're problem-solvers for organizations, we're team-builders and we help when things get hot. Typica...
LARRY AXELROD

We haven't learned the skills for handling conflict in the workplace.
LARRY AXELROD

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY

I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY

People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY

I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY

I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY

You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY

What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY

In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY

Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.

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David Axelrod

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.

David Axelrod

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